Planning is Cool?

In my random wanderings across the web late in the evening I discovered an article in US News & World Report. Apparently urban planning got cool last year and I totally missed it — it was touted as one of the “Best Careers of 2009“… they definitely seem to have gotten the multidisciplinary, multiple hats thing right in the summary but there’s a definite under emphasis in the following statement describing a ‘day in the life’:

“The official workday ends at 5 p.m., but tonight, you need to lead a public hearing on the project. Everybody has a complaint.”

And knowing that it kind of makes this factoid seem a little lackluster:

Salary Data
Median (with eight years in the field): $62,500

Bummer. But apparently someone thinks that’s cool.